Urban Lament: Collective Expressions of Pain, Rage, and Affection together and broader artistic and cultural

and broader artistic and cultural implications

which she escaped after being forced by nuns into an arranged marriage at fifteen

which at the beginning of the twentieth century abolished the opposition between free and mechanical people

stone eaters

leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectations of fiction and poetry

Urban Lament: Collective Expressions of Pain, Rage, and Affection together and broader artistic and culturalLamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the dead and the more than human. Gestures such as singing or breathing, gathering, and performances that exceed rationality can inspire a renewed approach to life and death, rural and urban. After all, amidst ongoing processes of